Epistolatory Assault

Updated Dec. 29, 2007 12:01 a.m. ET

Andrew Ferguson's review ("Dear Mr. Buckley, Cancel My Subscription," Leisure & Arts, Dec. 20) called to mind a letter to the editor that William F. Buckley Jr. wrote to the Journal in the 1970s, responding to a not particularly flattering front page article about his financial involvement in Starr Broadcasting, an owner of, among other things, FM rock music stations of decidedly unconservative bent. Mr. Buckley wrote from Singapore that while the piece had many facts wrong, travel and his lawyers prevented him from responding fully at the moment. His concluding riposte, if memory serves, was pure...